[jeffcoslacker]

Leave the bleeder open, leave the cap off the slave resevoir. Fill the resevoir and keep watching for the fluid to come out steady with no air down at the cylinder. When it does, close the bleeder, top off the slave, put the cap on, and depress the clutch pedal slowly about 1/2 way repeatedly until you feel the pedal firm up. Keep watching the fluid level, it may drop as the air works back through it.

If you get a strong flow of fluid from the bleeder by gravity filling it this way, you can assume the cylinder is pretty well purged. Now all you have to do is get the air outta the slave, which is what pumping the pedal does...pumping the pedal and opening the bleeder before you have a full system doesn't do anything, except suck more air in...once you have a pedal feel, THEN bleed any remaining air from the bleeder side.

If you can't get a pedal feel after this, the slave may be bad. You might also try opening the line where it comes to the slave...sometimes this will expidite purging air from the cylinder....use it like a bleeder, open, have someone push the pedal, close BEFORE they bottom out; repeat.

Lottle people think when you bleed you're supposed to hit bottom with the pedal and then close it up...not so..that's hard on the cylinder and can suck air back in as the person pushing the pedal changes how hard they hold it after bottoming...you wanna always just open-close in a quick one-two motion, and be closed before they bottom out...